The problem is that there's a shift in power in South America, and that benefits some people from here. The rejection of Rafael Correa by most Ecuadorians made Lenin Moreno adopt some policies that clearly affected Julian Assange indirectly.
Hope this gets solved for him soon.
Very good point, and I hope so too!
Rafael Correa was not rejected, he was ineligible to stand for a further term of office.
He was rejected by the electorate by a recall in his efforts to keep having an option to nominate himself as a candidate to get a second reelection. The constitution was amended by the will of the people on elections.
He was strongly campaigning against that amendment and he lost. Hence, he was rejected.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/05/a-referendum-in-ecuador-is-another-defeat-for-south-americas-left-wing-populists/